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Charles Mackay
First published in 1841. All three volumes in a single file. This work covers such topics as the Crusades, the witch mania, haunted houses, alchemy, and fortune telling. According to Wikipedia:'Charles Mackay (27 March 1814 – 24 December 1889) was
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Charles Mackay
Excerpt from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions. The essay begins:'The belief that disembodied spirits may be permitted to revisit this world, has its foundation upon that sublime hope of immortality, which is at once the chief solace and gre
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Charles Mackay
Excerpts from Charles Mackay's Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions, covering the Mississippi Scheme, the South Sea Bubble, and the Tulip Mania of 17th century Holland; plus the novels Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas, which deals with the tulip